Olympic Torch~ side issue that effects the whole world! (21)
I'm contacting the UN. I think the flame should be put out and a fluorescent Bulb should be installed. 
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Maybe boycott the Olymics just because of the impact on the climate?
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Come on gang, where's the outrage!!!! 
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I am outraged...I think it is a commie plot. They are going to make 1000s of torch duplicates at low costs.....each with this side effect.
Sell them......all along they have been working in some hiddent
lad to solve the world's Co2 problem....and with that solution...plan to
bring all of mankind under commie control and domination.
Well almost every country...not Denmark.......
Sell them......all along they have been working in some hiddent
lad to solve the world's Co2 problem....and with that solution...plan to
bring all of mankind under commie control and domination.
Well almost every country...not Denmark.......
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Indyfella: Come on gang, where's the outrage!!!!
Okay, because you're a bud and all...
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I knew the California contengency would show up cuz you guys want a pristine environment too 
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Indyfella: I knew the California contengency would show up cuz you guys want a pristine environment too
If they ask me to drive a Prius I'll knock someone's head off...
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rwantin: If they ask me to drive a Prius I'll knock someone's head off...
Ya know Robert, a Prius looks like something designed by a government agency. I think we both can agree on that!
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Indyfella: Ya know Robert, a Prius looks like something designed by a government agency. I think we both can agree on that!
Cha-ching!!!!
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rwantin: Cha-ching!!!!
They are damn ugly......... I wouldn't drive one if they gave it to me.
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Indyfella: They are damn ugly......... I wouldn't drive one if they gave it to me.
It helps the fashion plates around here make a statement. They don't give a damn about the environment (or for that matter, cars), but darnit, they can make a statement. Celebrities drive them, ya know.
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rwantin: It helps the fashion plates around here make a statement. They don't give a damn about the environment (or for that matter, cars), but darnit, they can make a statement. Celebrities drive them, ya know.
Let me guess? Babs Striesand?
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Indyfella: Let me guess? Babs Striesand?
Well, clearly it was designed with her nose as inspiration. I think.
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rwantin: Well, clearly it was designed with her nose as inspiration. I think.
I always thought she had that aerodynamic look.......
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bump~ since it's tied to the other Olympic thread 
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Indyfella: I'm contacting the UN. I think the flame should be put out and a fluorescent Bulb should be installed.
Good one! 
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Indyfella: bump~ since it's tied to the other Olympic thread
good point.....you should reproduce your original piece in the other thread too!
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And that english woman aborted her baby to save the planets carbon....
What about cows and methane gas...how do you propose to fix that one?
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Man is everything in life about carbon these days? The media really needs to get a grip....
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By DAVE DEMERJIAN
April 9, 2008
Angry protesters, riot police, mass demonstrations, arrests for disorderly conduct -- it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing for the Olympic-torch relay. If people are looking for another reason to be pissed at China, how about this: By the time this pyro parade is over, it will have produced about 11 million pounds of carbon emissions.
Chinese President Hu Jintao holds the Olympic torch after lighting the cauldron during the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch lighting ceremony, Monday, March 31, 2008, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.
(Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)The torch is visiting 23 cities during a global sweep that includes stops in London, Paris, San Francisco, Bangkok, Islamabad and Almaty among others. The Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee says the journey will cover more than 85,000 miles.
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Biofuel: Bad for the Environment?San Francisco Braces for Torch ProtestsBuy a Carbon Offset, Save the Planet? So when the torch isn't being marched through city streets and/or extinguished by protesters, how is it getting around? You guessed it, by plane -- an Air China A330 custom painted with the Olympic logo and color scheme. The A330 burns 5.4 gallons of fuel per mile. That translates into 462,400 gallons for the entire trip. With Earthlab estimating that every gallon of jet fuel burned produces 23.88 pounds of CO2, the Olympic Torch Relay is adding about 11 million pounds of carbon to the atmosphere. That's 5,500 tons.
London has a plan to ensure that the 2012 torch relay ends up carbon neutral, so we figured that Beijing must have one too, right? Sally Lu, the frazzled Olympic media relations rep that we reached in Beijing, says that if there is a plan to neutralize the torch-carrying jet's carbon emissions, she hasn't heard about it. But she thinks there is one. Probably.
The question is: who should be held responsible for crimes against humanity when the Olympic Torch is killing our beloved planet??? Should the UN pass a resolution?